Acetylene Definition

ə-sĕtl-ēn, -ən
noun
A colorless, highly flammable or explosive gas, C2 H2 , used for metal welding and cutting and as an illuminant.
American Heritage
A colorless, poisonous, highly flammable gaseous hydrocarbon, HC⋮CH, produced by the reaction of water and calcium carbide: used in organic compound synthesis, for lighting, and with oxygen in welding: the simplest alkyne.
Webster's New World

(organic chemistry, countable) Any organic compound having one or more carbon–carbon triple bonds; an alkyne.

Wiktionary

(organic chemistry, uncountable) Ethyne; the simplest alkyne, a hydrocarbon of formula HC≡CH. It is a colourless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odour, formerly used as an illuminating gas, but now used in welding or metallurgy.

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Noun

Singular:
acetylene
Plural:
acetylenes

Origin of Acetylene

  • From French acétylène, coined by French chemist Marcellin Berthelot, from acetyl.

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Acetylene Sentence Examples

  • Passed through a red-hot tube, benzene vapour yields hydrogen, diphenyl, diphenylbenzenes and acetylene; the formation of the last compound is an instance of a reversible reaction, since Berthelot found that acetylene passed through a red-hot tube gave some benzene.

  • It resembles acetylene in yielding metallic derivatives with ammoniacal copper and silver solutions.

  • They found that if liquid acetylene in a steel bottle be heated at one point by a platinum wire raised to a red heat, the whole mass decomposes and gives rise to such tremendous pressures that no cylinder would be able to withstand them.

  • For example, ethylene, C2H4 j is formed with absorption of 16200 cal., acetylene, C 2 H 2, with absorption of 59100 cal., and liquid benzene, C 6 H 6, with absorption of 9100 cal.

  • It will be noticed that compounds containing two double linkages will have the same general formula as the acetylene series; such compounds are known as the " diolefines."

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